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Cirque

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Definition: A bowl-shaped depression on a mountain that is carved out by an Alpine glacier.
Also Known As: cwm (Wales), coomb (England), corrie (Scotland and Ireland)
Examples:
The hills are alive with the sound of music as I stand and sing in the center of this amphitheatre-shaped cirque high in the hills with a lonely goatherd.

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